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(More customer reviews)While there is always much risk in comparing a less known writer with a writer of great renown, I do want to suggest that the mystery stories of Barry Smith and John D. MacDonald are similar in two very important aspects. They both are very good at capturing the feeling of location (for MacDonald,South Florida and for Barry Smith,San Francisco) and their characters are very real because they are sympathetic; they have many imperfections which often put both Travis McGee and David Moore in unpredictable situations which demand some amount of guile, intelligence, and good fortune! And the characterization of these two gumshoes is aided by crisp, straight-forward dialogue perfectly matched to the plot. Barry Smith's Blood Rain again demonstrates the author's ability to convey the atmosphere of the city by the bay. The plot creates many possible outcomes and demonstrates both the fallibility of detective David Moore as well as his resourcefulness. For every good mystery, the outcome must be in doubt; the pace must be frantic; the women should be delectable; the violence must be palpable. Mix in a generous amount of murderers, thieves and psychopaths and Blood Rain is a damn good read!
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On a rainy San Francisco November day, a brutal murder and a missing document take David Moore away from his duties as co-owner and private investigator of Rothmore Securities. McCloud College, a long-respected city institution, is under an attack that threatens its existence.The San Francisco Police reluctantly work with Moore, a former colleague, to identify who is killing faculty members. A lovely widow, a mousey professor with a gun, a well-connected and handsome college president, a deadly chief of campus security, and a rogue priest quickly pull him into a storm as violent as the one battering the Northern California coast.When a recently fired faculty member is murdered, Moore turns to an unlikely ally for help. She is a seductive department secretary whose need for thrills drives her into the arms of some very dangerous company. Moore must also fight against the knowledge that the lovely widow has some damning marks against her, not the least of which is his growing fondness for her.He hasn't much time to solve this puzzle, because two hired killers want the same lost document and guess correctrly that he knows where it is.
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